Dems have hard time connecting to voters because they know so much: Hirono

[Suzanimal]

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday told a conference that she heard one of the reasons that her party has a difficult time connecting with voters is because Democrats know so much, and have a tendency of appealing to voters' minds instead of their hearts.

Hirono made the comment at a conference in Washington, D.C. She was asked by the moderator about ways Democrats could drive voter turnout.


"I wish I had the answer to that because one of the things that we, Democrats, have a really hard time is connecting to people’s hearts instead of [their heads]," Hirono said. "We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here [pointing to her head] but not here [pointing to her heart]."

irono, 71, said Democrats need to stop speaking in a way that comes off as manipulative or strokes fear and resentment.


“But we have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons-- it was told to me at one of our retreats-- was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain," she continued.

The left-hand side of the brain is often associated with analytical thought.

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[timosman]

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[Danke]

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[RJB]

Orange man bad.

[Origanalist]

In what universe?

[jkr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=glm4A3HzFsA

[specsaregood]

In what universe?

Its true though:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtqCrWMU8AI38pG.jpg

[Brian4Liberty]

Democrats need to stop speaking in a way that comes off as manipulative or strokes fear and resentment.

That’s the Democrats entire strategy, how can they give that up? And I hate to break it to Crazy Mazie, but that is a strategy of emotion, not logic.

Either Mazie is delusional, or she is just an example of the standard Orwellian Marxism. (I.e. “up is down”, “left is right”, “war is peace”, “freedom is slavery”, etc.)

[acptulsa]

"It ain't what we don't know that hurts us, it's what we 'know' that ain't so."--Will Rogers (Democrat)

[Zippyjuan]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

[acptulsa]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

That's just Republicans trying to share a little fear among people not smart enough to scream with trepidation when they hear, 'We're from the government and we're here to help.'

[Occam's Banana]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

Global warming Climate change! Racism!

[Danke]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

Yes.


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[Krugminator2]

Good points from the good Senator.

"Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic racists who support rape and want the poor to starve" are such strong intellectual arguments. *Pointing at my head*

[Swordsmyth]

Yale Study Finds That White Liberals Dumb Down Their Vocabulary When Speaking to Black People (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?528750-Yale-Study-Finds-That-White-Liberals-Dumb-Down-Their-Vocabulary-When-Speaking-to-Black-People)

[Anti Federalist]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

White people! Libertarians!

[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Suzanimal]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!


Global warming Climate change! Racism!


White people! Libertarians!

Trump!!! Sexism!!! Trump!!!

[A. Havnes]

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[Krugminator2]

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Here is one of those intellectual arguments from a genius Democratic Senator. I think she means to say the future will be poorer and less free. And the future will be even more feminized and justice will be determined based on some Marxist theory that classifies people into victim groups. Great. Sign me up.

[oyarde]

Thanks Hawaii . All those people on an island and you elect her .

[Occam's Banana]

More effective to scare people. Immigrant! Terrorists!

Global warming Climate change! Racism!

LOL. Just one day after I posted that came a tweet wherein AOC delivers the two-fer (h/t timosman (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?529134-How-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez%92s-quot-Green-New-Deal-quot-Might-Help-Save-the-Planet&p=6718720&viewfull=1#post6718720)).

Presumably, if you are opposed to her "New Green Deal" then you are opposed to "racial justice" ...

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[acptulsa]

The problem, of course, is that without all those ten-dollar words acting as camouflage, all that's left is barenaked horse$#!+.

[Anti Globalist]

Orange man bad.